Friday Night Jukebox: Remix Edition
I dig this track (click on the link for the full version): Wamp Wamp (Vampire Weekend Remix) – Les Bank Robbers
Monthly Archive: September 2009
confessional monovlog
For some reason I can’t get this video of Bob Wright to embed, so I’ll just link to it. Without Mickey, Bob is here alone in a kind of video confessional that I’ve...
There Goes Reconciliation
Uh oh. Hadn’t seen this before, but Lawrence O’Donnell just shoots down reconciliation as the way to get health care reform through. Apparently rules state that 51 votes is sufficient only in final passage–there...
A Faint Ray of Hope for Wyden-Bennett?
Justin Gardner astutely picks up on what appears to be a conciliatory trial balloon from a potential candidate for the GOP nomination in ’12. Particularly in the wake of the Club for Growth’s nihilistic...
For the Love of the Money (or alternatively, fiscal responsibility)
The New York Times – as is its wont – has a pretty good editorial on the need for higher taxes in the age of Obama: But, sooner than he may prefer, Mr. Obama...
Learning to Float in the War on Terror
Jamelle makes some persuasive points in this post on Afghanistan–arguing that the administration and its supporters have yet to make a solid case that the war is in the US interests. As he says,...
Commercial real estate…
…is starting to get some additional attention from within Congress: Impending problems with commercial mortgages are making their way into the public domain and appear to be catching–finally–the attention of Congress. The latest missive...
Afghanistan’s strategic importance is still up in the air
Michael Gerson is entitled to his belief that the war in Afghanistan is a strategic necessity, but he could probably make the point without thoughtlessly dismissing critics of the war: The strategic importance of...
Rights and Responsibilities
Our pal Ken at Popehat (see also Dave Schuler) asks whether there can be an affirmative constitutional right to health care and whether there already exists an affirmative constitutional right that could be compared...
philosophical not ideological commitment
Picking back up the thread of our quadrilogue on ideological dexterity, I’d like to start with this quotation from Scott: My own diagnosis would take Erik’s focus on the cultural absolutism of prevailing political...
I Don’t Have the Super-Sniffer: BC Edition
Here in Vancouver we have a lot of city skunks as they have adapted to garbage can/neighborhood living. We also have a lot of folks who smoke weed in public. Both exist in my...
George Will & Iraq
Looks like George Will wants to leave Iraq, too. I’m not convinced we can achieve much of anything there or in Afghanistan. But this “break it you buy it” ethic keeps coming back to...
If You’re a Mets Fan…
This is extremely depressing. What makes it even more depressing is that it says what anyone with two eyes and half a brain has known for at least a few months now: the Mets...
The Right to Dwell
As of today I am no longer residing in Canada in what the US (and the book of Leviticus!!!) would call resident alien status. [Damn there goes my claim on the extra harvest from...
congratulations are in order
Congrats to Jason Kuznicki on the new addition to the family! Get lots of rest, and have fun on blog-hiatus!
Another Isolated Incident
Goddamn. Cops really need to start trying to understand how their actions are likely to be perceived not only by the communities they patrol but also by people they’re trying to apprehend. Sometimes, after...
McDonnell’s thesis
A friend pointed out that a lot of the discomfort surrounding McDonnell’s thesis comes from its arcane terminology – words like “fornicator” and “homosexual” are less common nowadays and suggest some distasteful religious overtones....
a rose by any other name…
Despite anything Andrew might have to say about Max Boot – I just have to add that the man has probably the coolest name around. It sounds like a movie. Like “Das Boot” mixed...
